WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Washington's Georgetown University has set up a blue-ribbon panel to look at ways to amend the 1973 U.S. War Powers Act.
The committee, which will operate under the joint leadership of former U.S. Reps. Mickey Edwards, R-Okla., and David Skaggs, D-Colo., will analyze and make recommendations concerning the U.S. government's constitutional and statutory authority to deploy armed forces abroad.
"There is no constitutional question more weighty or complex than how we define power to take this country to war and how in operation that power is shared between the legislative and executive branches," Skaggs said.
Other members of the commission, which is part of the university's Constitution Project, include former Supreme Allied Commander Europe General George Joulwan, former U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser, D-Tenn., and former CIA Director James Woolsey.
